Gay Religion

by Thumma, Scott; Gray, Edward R.

• ISBN13: 9780759103252
• ISBN10: 0759103259
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-12-01
• Publisher: Altamira Pr

Summary

While homosexuals continue gaining acceptance in other arenas of American culture, only a tiny minority of religious groups accept gays and lesbians as full members and potential clergy. Serious conflicts over homosexuality threaten to break apart several

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
William McKinney
Mary A. Tolbert
Introduction	xi
Edward R. Gray
Scott Thumma
Part I: Denominational Heritage Expressions	1	(162)
The Gay God of the City: The Emergence of the Gay and Lesbian Ethnic Parish	7	(24)
Leonard Norman Primiano
Reconciling Congregations Bridging Gay and Straight Communities	31	(16)
Wendy Cadge
No Longer an Oxymoron: Integrating Gay and Lesbian Seventh-day Adventist Identities	47	(20)
Rene Drumm
Negotiating a Religious Identity: The Case of the Gay Evangelical	67	(16)
Scott Thumma
Why Join a Gay Synagogue?	83	(16)
Moshe Shokeid
Latter-day Saint Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Spirituality	99	(16)
Richley H. Crapo
Sexuality and Gender in Santeria: LGBT Identities at the Crossroads of Santeria Religious Practices and Beliefs	115	(24)
Salvador Vidal-Ortiz
Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Buddhist Practitioners	139	(14)
Wendy Cadge
Shades of Grey or Back to Nature? The Enduring Qualities of Ex-Gay Ministries	153	(10)
Christy M. Ponticelli
Part II: Subaltern/Sectarian Expressions	163	(118)
Pluralism and Diversity: Music as Discourse and Information in a Gay and Lesbian Congregation	167	(14)
W. Bernard Lukenbill
``St. Gerard Teaches Him That Love Cancels That Out:'' Devotion to St. Gerard Maiella among Italian American Catholic Gay Men in Newark, New Jersey	181	(22)
Peter Savastano
A Religion of One's Own: Gender and LGBT Religiosities	203	(18)
Melissa M. Wilcox
Liberation in Truth: African American Lesbians Reflect on Religion, Spirituality, and Their Church	221	(18)
Aryana Bates
Utopian Imaginaries and Faerie Practice: Mapping Routes of Relational Agency	239	(20)
Jay Hasbrouck
Queering the Dragonfest: Changing Sexualities in a Post-Patriarchal Religion	259	(22)
Mary Jo Neitz
Part III: Popular Expressions	281	(86)
The Gospel Hour: Liminality, Identity, and Religion in a Gay Bar	285	(18)
Edward R. Gray
Scott Thumma
Intermediaries: Spirit and Transcendence in a Sample of ``Third-Gendered'' North Americans	303	(10)
Ingrid Sell
Rite to Party: Circuit Parties and Religious Experience	313	(14)
Paul J. Gorrell
The Harvey Milk Show: Violence, Desire, and Gay Popular Culture	327	(10)
Edward R. Gray
Gay Men's Spiritual Experience in the Leather Community	337	(14)
Thomas V. Peterson
The Spirit Within: Gay Male Culture as a Spiritual Venue	351	(16)
Donald L. Boisvert
Conclusion: Gay Religion as a Cultural Production	367	(10)
R. Marie Griffith
Appendix	377	(30)
Bibliography	407	(26)
Index	433	(18)
About the Authors	451